convulsion

It underscores how complicated this case—this social convulsion—ultimately is.

Reconciliations are handled glancingly, if at all; the family simply continues, settling into new patterns after each convulsion.

She had done with little things, and Isabel, with young curiosity, wondered in what convulsion the last of them had gone down.

Uttering these words, the good lady pointed distractedly to the cupboard, and underwent a convulsion from internal spasms.

It has been claimed that a shot would break the tube and end the little convulsion.

When the launch was under way Isabel told Gwynne of the blue flames that had danced over the marsh during the convulsion.

What he dreaded was the spasm of dying—the convulsion that was to snap the thousand silver strings in the harp of life.